Logistics Manager - Construction
The opportunity
As a Logistics Manager, you will work closely with the Construction Manager and specialist Works Contractors to oversee and coordinate all logistics and planning activities across the project. You will be responsible for ensuring that all contractors execute their scope of work in full compliance with contractual requirements and project standards.
This role is central to managing the logistics planning and field installation details for a large, complex data centre project with stringent technical specifications. You will operate within a Project Management Consultant (PMC) structure, representing the client side, and will be involved throughout the project lifecycle—from design through to full commissioning and operational handover.
To succeed in this role, you’ll need to be a highly detail-oriented professional with substantial experience as a Logistics Construction Manager on data centre or other large-scale technical projects. The position involves a significant amount of hands-on coordination, ensuring that all field installations align precisely with approved design documents.
In this role you will:
- Work with the Construction Manager and facilitate problem solving and logistics planning, as it may arise, between the Works Contractors during construction.
- Work intensively with the contractor Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) team to coordinate all field activities and trade coordination in the field.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the contract documents (drawings and specifications) and produce phasing plans, logistics systems interrelationships, construction sequencing and align with the project schedule.
- Lead the logistics/planning meetings and track all meeting minutes and logistics plans.
- Experience in using interactive logistics/planning tools
- Produce and document logistics plans for the project with assistance from the Construction Manager and subcontractors. Detailed logistics plans will be updated and distributed on a regular basis.
- Interface with the Owner Furnished Equipment (OFE) manager for all client-provided equipment and provide logistics plans for all equipment installation.
- Working with the General Requirements contractor is the proactive management of site logistics and seasonal challenges
- Ensure that Subcontractors adheres to relevant Quality documentation/records and logistic plans.
We would love to hear from you if you:
- Have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Logistics Manager within large Construction projects.
- Have experience building 5+ ground up data centres or other technically intensive facilities
- Have a deep understanding for logistics planning and coordinating subcontractors for hyper data centre projects.
- Demonstrate experience and personal references for working on large data centre projects with hyperscale clients.
- Have the ability to build positive and productive relationships with the owner’s team as well as key vendor and subcontractors.
- Have the ability to move fast and quickly make solid strategic and planning decisions on the go is critical for success.
- Have a degree in engineering or related field.
- Have superior engineering working knowledge of plans, engineering drawings, specifications and schematics associated with the logistics trades.
- Are computer literate, with significant experience with Excel, Word, OneDrive, PowerPoint, BIM360, Datascope and other computer-based tools
- Have fluent English communication and organizational skills.
At Linesight, we believe that our success is tied to the success of our employees, and we are committed to creating a workplace that is fair, equitable, and inclusive for everyone. We understand that creating an environment where all employees have an equal opportunity to thrive requires a concerted effort across every stage of their time with us, from hiring and onboarding to promotion, career growth, and development.
As part of this commitment, we have implemented a range of policies and initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I). This starts with our attraction pipeline and accessible job descriptions, designed to attract a broad range of candidates, and continuing throughout the employee life cycle with DE&I checks built in at every stage. Fairness, consistency, and transparency are the core principles for all our hiring, salary increase, and promotion decisions with built-in gender pay gap checks. Employee and family-friendly policies also enhance inclusion and equity in our teams.
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